Nearly everyone familiar with the world of rare books has heard of the Book of Hours, the so-called bestseller of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. However, few people, except specialist…
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NEW YORK (NY): The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF)—officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and International League…
Curator Naomi Speakman explores the fantastical world of medieval bestiaries and the mythical creatures found within.
An exhibition opening this week celebrates one of “Bill’s” life-long passions: his collection of fakes and forgeries, which he assembled over nearly five decades.
This fall, the Morgan Library will be exhibiting some of its most bejeweled medieval books in the show Magnificent Gems: Medieval Treasure Bindings. The exhibition, which is running…
John Tenniel judged the images produced from electrotype printing plates of his illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to be so poorly rendered that he convinced the…
On December 5, one of the world’s best private collections of English Bibles will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York. It is the …
At TEFAF Maastricht this week, North American manuscript dealers Les Enluminuresclosed a more than…
